Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Tuvalu and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Agent Orange to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Amon Düül. All the underground hits.
All Intrusion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeff Lynne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Slave record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Germs,
Lou Christie,
Thompson Twins,
Au Pairs,
Groovy Waters,
The Skatalites,
The Offenders,
Soft Cell,
Piero Umiliani,
Judy Mowatt,
DNA,
Cybotron,
Bootsy Collins,
Aaron Thompson,
Ultimate Spinach,
Goldenarms,
the Slits,
DJ Sneak,
Delon & Dalcan,
Main Source,
Yellowson,
Scan 7,
The Mojo Men,
Connie Case,
The Dirtbombs,
Harry Pussy,
Boredoms,
Motorama,
Marc Almond,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
L. Decosne,
Scion,
Sound Behaviour,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Blake Baxter,
Quadrant,
Kurtis Blow,
Barry Ungar,
Rod Modell,
Camberwell Now,
D'Angelo,
Eddi Front,
Sister Nancy,
Tim Buckley,
The Gories,
Lalo Schifrin,
Lee Hazlewood,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Martian,
Stereo Dub,
Fatback Band,
Surgeon,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Pagans,
Kerrie Biddell,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Toasters,
Sällskapet,
The Modern Lovers,
Stetsasonic,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Bobby Sherman,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
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You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.